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During our Emerging Technologies Seminar series, we have learned and gathered new ideas and important information regarding the latest and emerging trends in Information Technology. We have been exposed to the current status of the technology today. Several speakers have conducted talks about their topic of expertise. Some speakers made an excellent discussion but some only made us sleepy. Some topics became very interesting because of the topics that we can relate.

            One topic that really catches my interest is the Mobile technology trends. It made me realize how technology evolves very fast. From the hype 3310 and its best game space impact to the all in one phone nowadays, it is amazing how people can easily adopt to the fast paced trends in mobile computing. Now, a phone is not just a phone but an organiser, a mini pc, and a lot more. There are also other seminars about mobile technology trends there is a seminar about mobile can be used us other gadgets like GPS, there is also a concept phone that can used as a watch or can be folded and be made as a pocket beeper-like device.

            Highlights of the other seminars included the Business intelligence, it is a good talk, with a good speaker, he makes the seminar interactive and the audience also participated because he got the interest of the audience in the topic. He explains the importance of this and how it can greatly help to a company. I understand that Business Intelligence can be compared to a special query where it is easy to gather data and produce useful information for them for easier decision making in the company.

            Technical seminars I think are the ones that bore me, the speakers are just like teaching new programming languages, or frameworks. Like the No SQL where the topic is very technical that we can’t catch up on what it is really saying.

            In some other aspects regarding the seminar duration, the low audience turn out is very evident in all the seminars. Sometimes, this can be embarrassing to the speaker because it is a Saturday and he or she made an effort to go to school.

            All in all, the Emerging Technologies seminar series is a good way to end my academic term. It equips me with the latest ideas in Emerging Technologies and trends as well as the different thing to be aware with regards to these things. It is a helpful addition to our knowledge so that we can catch up with the face paced system in this ever changing world.